WHAT IS SHAKESPEARE'S LEGACY? WHERE DO WE FIND SHAKESPEARE'S INFLUENCE EVEN TODAY? WHERE IS SHAKESPEARE IN MODERN POP CULTURE? WHAT IN OUR EVERYDAY LIFE ARE REFERENCES OR ALLUSIONS TO SHAKESPEARE? WHAT DEBT DO WE OWE TO SHAKESPEARE IN OUR CULTURE, LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ART. Answer prepared by: Ryan D.
Shakespeare had a huge impact on the whole world of play writing and acting. He most likely started out as an actor in theater, and then slowly started to do more play-writing then acting. That was a common thing for actors to do in the time. Even today you can still see ways of how Shakespeare influenced the world. For instance, he changed the English language; he added thousands of words and phrases to the English dictionary. And he added new concepts and grammatical structures. Also his works have endured for 400 years, and are still very popular plays to watch. He went outside the traditional boundaries of play writing and put in a mixture on genres that weren’t really accepted during his day.
His plays have survived for long not because Shakespeare is famous, but because his characters feel alive to the viewers. And people still use some of the words and phrases he came up with. Such as “primrose path” and “all’s well that ends well.” Quiet a few modern plays are based on how Shakespeare wrote his plays and the plays he wrote. We owe Shakespeare a lot when it comes to culture. He changed the way plays would be written forever. Also we owe him in the English language. If it wasn’t for him we might not have over 1000 words added into the English dictionary. He changed and introduced new ways of literature, by coming up with new grammatical ways to write things. Shakespeare has a huge legacy that we can see all around us. Works Cited Chrisp, Peter. Eyewitness Shakespeare. 1. 1. DK Publishing, Inc., N/A. 62. Print.
Rosen, Michael. Shakespeare: His Work & His World. 1. 1. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, N/A. 80. Print.
"Shakespeare's Biography." Shakespeare Research Center. J. M. Pressley and the Shakespeare Resource Center, 8 January, 2010. Web. 11 Apr 2010. <http://www.bardweb.net/man.html>.
Answer prepared by: Ryan D.
Shakespeare had a huge impact on the whole world of play writing and acting. He most likely started out as an actor in theater, and then slowly started to do more play-writing then acting. That was a common thing for actors to do in the time. Even today you can still see ways of how Shakespeare influenced the world. For instance, he changed the English language; he added thousands of words and phrases to the English dictionary. And he added new concepts and grammatical structures. Also his works have endured for 400 years, and are still very popular plays to watch. He went outside the traditional boundaries of play writing and put in a mixture on genres that weren’t really accepted during his day.
His plays have survived for long not because Shakespeare is famous, but because his characters feel alive to the viewers. And people still use some of the words and phrases he came up with. Such as “primrose path” and “all’s well that ends well.” Quiet a few modern plays are based on how Shakespeare wrote his plays and the plays he wrote. We owe Shakespeare a lot when it comes to culture. He changed the way plays would be written forever. Also we owe him in the English language. If it wasn’t for him we might not have over 1000 words added into the English dictionary. He changed and introduced new ways of literature, by coming up with new grammatical ways to write things. Shakespeare has a huge legacy that we can see all around us.
Works Cited
Chrisp, Peter. Eyewitness Shakespeare. 1. 1. DK Publishing, Inc., N/A. 62. Print.
Rosen, Michael. Shakespeare: His Work & His World. 1. 1. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, N/A. 80. Print.
"Shakespeare's Biography." Shakespeare Research Center. J. M. Pressley and the Shakespeare Resource Center, 8 January, 2010. Web. 11 Apr 2010. <http://www.bardweb.net/man.html>.